Showing posts with label Paducah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paducah. Show all posts

Friday, November 22, 2019

Day 326 of 2019

When in Houston earlier this month, 
we had a discussion about Seven Sisters blocks and quilts. 
I mentioned that I had seen and taken a picture of a fabulous Seven Sisters quilt
 in Paducah many years ago.  
I had begun my own version of it and would send evidence when I found it.  
Well, here is the photo and my one almost finished block. 
According to the information I wrote on the back of the photo, 
it was taken in 1998. 
 It was one of the first, if not the very first, 
years I made the trip to attend the quilt show. 
All the merchants downtown had decorated their store windows with quilts.  
This quilt top was in the window of a shoe store and I was quite taken by it.  
We went inside to get a better look and to ask if it was okay to take a picture.  
They said yes and even offered to get the top down so we could really look at it, 
which they did. 
This block was to be the beginnings of my own quilt in the pattern
 and a nice take-along hand project.  
It turns out I do not enjoy the EPP (English paper piecing) process 
so it remains unfinished.  
Maybe I will find that last piece and finish it 
so I can put it with my other orphan blocks 
and eventually find a home for it.

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Day 115/365

I've had a great week in Paducah, but now I am packed and ready to go home.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Day 114/365

As we walked to dinner our last night in Paducah, 
I stopped to take a picture of my reflection in a shop window.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Day 113/365

Day 3 in Paducah. 
This bike was parked outside a music store downtown. 
I thought of Lucy.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Dat 112/365

Day two in Paducah. 
We saw the most lovely display of antique hexagon quilts.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Day 111/365

My friend Julie and I are in Paducah, Kentucky for AQS Quilt Week. 
This is one of the few places we stopped today.
There are wonderful exhibits inside right now including one with antique 9-patch quilts.
I may have to try to reproduce a couple of them.

Friday, April 25, 2014

Day 115 of 365

More quilting celebrity sightings.
Alex Anderson was nice enough to agree to a picture.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Day 114 of 365

Sometimes when walking around the show in Paducah 
one happens upon quilting celebrities.  
Cindy Needham was posing for a picture next to her award winning quilt.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Day 113 of 365

Every year at this same time the businesses of Paducah, Kentucky 
display quilts, mostly antiques, in their windows and shops
 for all the visitors to enjoy. 
This is one of my favorites that I saw today, 
right there among the tents and camping gear.